Get a move on!

[caddyman]

I think today must be National Move Like A Snail Day, or National Stand Around Chatting Day.

Well, I'm sorry to break into your leisure time, kids, but when I am at the end of a queue that’s ten people long and lengthening, I rather expect you chavs to stop your slack-jawed yokelling and go and help the single person engaged in honest toil amongst the banks of empty tills. I mean, Marks and Spencer must be able to pay you a reasonable sum since "It's not just food, it's (arse-reamingly expensive) M&S food."

I know that in that particular location you have a largely captive clientele base, but come on.

/rant

Comments

[mathcathy]

Yesterday, i think Costa Coffee in Belfast Airport won the snail prize. There were four people, all serving, and it still took over 10 minutes for my colleague to get served - in a queue of just 4 people.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

That is impressive!

[mathcathy]

Today's experience says that service is even worse if you want a coffee airside.

Long May They Chat

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

I have worked at M&S as have (at one time or another) every member of my immediate family and I can inform you that they are unmitigated tossers to work for. I have total sympathy with the slackers and hope that their complete lack of interest (which is doubtless the result of their crappy managers shoddy treatment) drives away customers in the millions and as a result brings down M&S.

Sorry if you as a customer get caught in the crossfire but if you could bear with us for a moment, theres a low-level class war going on : )

Re: Long May They Chat

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Hmm, when I worked in retail (caramba, over twenty years ago) M&S was considered the standard-bearer for employers with integrity. Then a guy that caddyman and I went to school with took over. I can only imagine that his short reign and ignominious departure started the decline.

Re: Long May They Chat

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was there about 90-92 and it was just turning. My dad and mum worked there until the early 2000s and by then all the employees who'd been there long enough to remember it before we're deserting it in droves (this was about the time that it's fortunes had their first really big wobble). Overnight they seemingly employed a swarm of young, obnoxious and staggeringly up themselves young managers who decided they wanted to throw their weight around and 'make their mark'. They were backed up by an agressive team of accountants and after that point lots of people got very fed-up indeed.

Re: Long May They Chat

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Ah, middle management. Both the backbone and the curse of the workplace.

[robcee.livejournal.com]

hi there, I am currently working at a variety of Birmingham locations through Monday - Thursday. let me know if you fancy a Philpotts?

[robcee.livejournal.com]

sorry totally got your city wrong! :-)